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QBF solvers implementing the QCDCL paradigm are powerful algorithms that successfully tackle many computationally complex applications. However, our theoretical understanding of the strength and limitations of these QCDCL solvers is very…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Olaf Beyersdorff , Benjamin Böhm

We propose an approach for decomposing Boolean satisfiability problems while extending recent results of \cite{sul2} on solving Boolean systems of equations. Developments in \cite{sul2} were aimed at the expansion of functions $f$ in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Madhav Desai , Virendra Sule

We show that extension variables in (D)QBF can be generalised by conditioning on universal assignments. The benefit of this is that the dependency sets of such conditioned extension variables can be made smaller to allow easier refutations.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Leroy Chew , Tomáš Peitl

Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF) extend propositional logic with quantification $\forall, \exists$. In QBF, an existentially quantified variable is allowed to depend on all universally quantified variables in its scope. Dependency…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Priyanka Golia , Subhajit Roy , Kuldeep S. Meel

We propose reductions to quantified Boolean formulas (QBF) as a new approach to showing fixed-parameter linear algorithms for problems parameterized by treewidth. We demonstrate the feasibility of this approach by giving new algorithms for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Michael Lampis , Stefan Mengel , Valia Mitsou

Graph generation and enumeration problems often require handling equivalent graphs -- those that differ only in vertex labeling. We study how to extend SAT Modulo Symmetries (SMS), a framework for eliminating such redundant graphs, to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Mikoláš Janota , Markus Kirchweger , Tomáš Peitl , Stefan Szeider

Expansion is an operation on typings (i.e., pairs of typing environments and result types) defined originally in type systems for the lambda-calculus with intersection types in order to obtain principal (i.e., most informative, strongest)…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-01-06 Sergueï Lenglet , J. B. Wells

Certification for Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF) and Dependency Quantified Boolean Formulas (DQBF) is an ongoing challenge. Recent proof complexity work has shown that the majority of QBF and DQBF techniques can be p-simulated by using…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Leroy Chew , Tomáš Peitl

The alternation of existential and universal quantifiers in a quantified boolean formula (QBF) generates dependencies among variables that must be respected when evaluating the formula. Dependency schemes provide a general framework for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Friedrich Slivovsky , Stefan Szeider

Term-resolution provides an elegant mechanism to prove that a quantified Boolean formula (QBF) is true. It is a dual to Q-resolution (also referred to as clause-resolution) and is practically highly important as it enables certifying…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Mikoláš Janota

Basis Function (BF) expansions are a cornerstone of any engineer's toolbox for computational function approximation which shares connections with both neural networks and Gaussian processes. Even though BF expansions are an intuitive and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Anton Kullberg , Frida Viset , Isaac Skog , Gustaf Hendeby

The quantified Boolean formula problem (QBF) is a well-known PSpace-complete problem with rich expressive power, and is generally viewed as the SAT analogue for PSpace. Given that many problems today are solved in practice by reducing to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Leif Eriksson , Victor Lagerkvist , Sebastian Ordyniak , George Osipov , Fahad Panolan , Mateusz Rychlicki

We present an approach to propagation based solving, Boolean equi-propagation, where constraints are modelled as propagators of information about equalities between Boolean literals. Propagation based solving applies this information as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Amit Metodi , Michael Codish , Vitaly Lagoon , Peter J. Stuckey

This paper develops a parallel computational solver for computing all satifying assignments of a Boolean system of equations defined by Boolean functions of several variables. While there are we known solvers for satisfiability of Boolean…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Virendra Sule

Computer programs, so-called solvers, for solving the well-known Boolean satisfiability problem (Sat) have been improving for decades. Among the reasons, why these solvers are so fast, is the implicit usage of the formula's structural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Markus Hecher

The Factorial Basis method, initially designed for quasi-triangular, shift-compatible factorial bases, provides solutions to linear recurrence equations in the form of definite-sums. This paper extends the Factorial Basis method to its…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Antonio Jiménez-Pastor , Ali Kemal Uncu

QBFs (quantified boolean formulas), which are a superset of propositional formulas, provide a canonical representation for PSPACE problems. To overcome the inherent complexity of QBF, significant effort has been invested in developing QBF…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-10 Mikolas Janota , Radu Grigore , Joao Marques-Silva

The Boolean SATisfiability problem (SAT) is of central importance in computer science. Although SAT is known to be NP-complete, progress on the engineering side, especially that of Conflict-Driven Clause Learning (CDCL) and Local Search SAT…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Anastasios Kyrillidis , Anshumali Shrivastava , Moshe Y. Vardi , Zhiwei Zhang

In this paper, we address the problem of enumerating all models of a Boolean formula in conjunctive normal form (CNF). We propose an extension of CDCL-based SAT solvers to deal with this fundamental problem. Then, we provide an experimental…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Said Jabbour , Lakhdar Sais , Yakoub Salhi

We introduce new semi-algebraic proof systems for Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF) analogous to the propositional systems Nullstellensatz, Sherali-Adams and Sum-of-Squares. We transfer to this setting techniques both from the QBF…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Olaf Beyersdorff , Ilario Bonacina , Kaspar Kasche , Meena Mahajan , Luc Nicolas Spachmann